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According to the communist organization of research, studies of mass media in the 1970s and 1980s
were confined to the institute and the Department of Journalism at Komenský University. The latter, unfortunately,
had been severely purged after the Soviet invasion, and the quality of some of its research
diminished.
After the downfall of communism, journalism and mass media research developed more broadly
across the country as new schools and departments of journalism were founded. The editing of Otázky
žurnalistiky was taken over by the university’s journalism department, which for a while managed to secure
funding to continue publication. Several years ago the editorial operations were moved to a university
in Ružomberok. The Faculty of Mass Media Research at the University of Saints Cyril and Methodius in
Trnava launched Communication Today in 2010, which is published twice yearly, partly in Slovak and
partly in English.
While quantitatively the amount of Slovak mass media research in recent years has increased, its audience
has been limited and disparate. I have been able to identify more than five dozen publications in English
about Slovak journalism and mass media, but they have appeared in chapters and journal articles in an extraordinary
variety of locations, making it difficult to access them.
For more than fifty years, journalism and mass media researchers in Slovakia have published a variety
of important articles and books about developments in the country. With the launching of this Slovak edition
of the online Global Media Journal, the conversation about these developments and the knowledge of
developments outside the country will be enhanced and enriched.
English-Language Bibliography of Slovak Mass Media Research, compiled by
Owen V. Johnson, Indiana University
Lucia Barmošová. “Digitalization of TV Broadcasting in Slovakia,” International Journal of Digital
Television 1:3 (September 2010), pp. 361-66.
Peter Barrer. “My White, Blue, & Red Heart: Constructing a Slovak Identity in Rap Music,” Popular Music
& Society 32:1 (2009), pp. 59-75.
Peter Barrer. “World Famous in Slovakia: Domestic Popular Music during & after Communist Party
Rule,” New Zealand Slavonic Journal 40 (2006), pp. 73-89.
Stanislav Benicka. “[Slovak] Radio and Television,” Zborník Filozofickej fakulty Univerzity Komenského-
Žurnalistika 21-22 (1995), pp. 11-21.
Scott Brown. “Caricatures of Revolution: Slovak Political Cartoons in the Czechoslovak Spring,” Carl Beck
Papers 2105 (November 2011).
Adam Burgess. “Writing Off Slovakia To ‘The East’ Examining Charges of Bias in British Press Reporting
of Slovakia, 1993-1994,” Nationalities Papers 25:4 (December 1997), pp. 659-82.
Martin Bútora, Grigorij Mesežnikov & Miroslav Kollár, eds., Slovakia 2009: Trends in Quality of
Democracy (2010), pp. 87-103.
Henry Delfiner. The Vienna Broadcasts to Slovakia: A Case Study in Diversion (1974).
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